Check-hook toe harness



UNITED san'r rar onirica.

A. B. BUELL, OF" WESTBLIORELAND, NEW YORK.

CHECK-HOOK FOR HARNESS.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 3,484, dated March 13, 1844.

To all whom t may concern.' i

Be it known that I, ABEL B. BUELL, of lVestinoreland, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented a new and improved inode of fastening a checkhook, pad-hook or Water-hook, as it is variously called, to the pad or saddle of a harness and of furnishing a permanent loop for the back-strap; and I do hereby dedescription. a

in the Aannexed drawing No. l repre- Vclare that the following is a full and exact sents anedge view ofthe inetal slide and loop, No. 2 a side or full view of the saine. No. 8 represents an edge view of the check hook, rearward No. i aside orfull view of the saine. i .1

The check hook (letter il), is itself made `in any of the `ordinarystyles or forms, to

be inade of anynietal Wrought or cast, and instead of fastening to the pad leather (letters B B which forni the Whole thickness of the padleathei) by nutsand screws as is usually done, it is secured or fastenedby the addition to that part of the check hook appearing above th-e pad leather' (letter C), by a button vor dovetail (letter `D) which buttons down through a hole cut through the upper thickness of the pad leather (letter E), and the metal slide (letters F F) which has lips half the thickness of the slide (let-ters G G) projecting inwardly froin the slide itself (letters F F), slide in over and upon the button or dovet-ail atl (letters H H), and the other end of which metal slide (letter I) projects in an open square or round loop (letter J), an inch or half an inch beyond the pad leather rear-Ward, ac-

cording to the Width of the pad leather,V

a the manner of fastening and securing the checlrhock and the loop for the back strap, and for nothing else.

i ABEL B. BU'ELL.

llitnesses A. H. HALLECK, W. P. LEWIS. 

